“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― The Cruel Prince
― The Cruel Prince
“He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”
I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”
He grins up at me. “They missed.”
― The Wicked King
I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”
He grins up at me. “They missed.”
― The Wicked King
“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
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